I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I’m too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day! Jeff Lemire Read Quote
It’s my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it’s hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that’s realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
You can write a script, but that’s just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
There are so many versions of Batman that I love so much from different artists that I had to almost stop trying to draw those versions and get past that and just draw the Jeff Lemire version of Batman eventually. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
People like Superman, The Flash – they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
When I was offered ‘Hawkeye,’ it was very intimidating at first because that book is so loved and so successful, commercially and critically. The worst thing you could do is try to imitate what they did because, in the end, you’re just going to get a watered-down version of what they did. Jeff Lemire Read Quote
